Agriculture committee  Wayne, can you help me with your first question again? I don't think I was looking at the correct chart.

Agriculture committee  May I ask our executive director, Martin, to answer that part of the question?

Agriculture committee  What we really need is to have the multilateral trading platform back on its feet. We need access to the European market. We need the Canadian government to negotiate greater access than 0.5%, and that's where the opportunity lies. For instance, if there were appropriate access to the European pork market, the world pork trade could increase by as much as 25% to 50%.

Agriculture committee  That's correct.

Agriculture committee  There are two aspects that might be appropriate here. One would be the call for production insurance for livestock. That, potentially, could help in response to animal disease situations. The other one is that there's been a debate about whether the margin in CAIS could be adjusted for years when a producer has faced serious disease problems.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the interesting question. I want to be simple and I want to be clear. The future can be bright or it can be pessimistic. We can either maintain our industry, we can rebuild and move forward, or we can spin ourselves into a period of decline. I think those are the two choices.

Agriculture committee  CPC is pleased to see biofuels emerge as an important additional opportunity for revenue generating for our grains and oilseeds producers, a sector that had serious income challenges in recent years and whose economic health is crucial to the long-run viability of our industry.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. We each will present part of our presentation, and I'm assuming you each have a copy of our presentation that you can follow along, because there is a graph or two in there we'd like to refer to. Thank you very much for the opportunity to present our concerns and discuss with you the issues facing Canada's 13,000 hog producers.